Plastic waste has quietly reshaped the oceans you depend on, and a new global study from Tulane University shows the danger runs deeper than floating bottles and bags. Scientists have now mapped ...

Dangerous concentrations of algae such as "red tides" have been consistently emerging in locations around the world. A region ...

Candy wrappers. Balloons. Grocery bags. Every day, the equivalent of 2,000 full garbage trucks worth of plastic gets dumped in the world's oceans. Scientists have long known that plastic waste is ...

Plastic pollution may be quietly fueling algal blooms by knocking out the grazers that usually keep algae under control.

Animals that hunt in the dark with sonar may not be able to tell junk from squids BEAUFORT, N.C. -- To whales that hunt with soundwaves in the lightless depths of the ocean, a torn plastic party ...

Japan has developed a new kind of shopping bag that looks ordinary but behaves very differently from plastic. These bags are ...

Congaree National Park in SC has attracted multitudes of scientific research projects and plenty of visitors. But it faces ...

Straws might seem insignificant, inspiring jokes about the plastic vs. paper debate, but the plastic straw has come to symbolize a global pollution crisis over the past decade. On Monday, President ...